Two faculties that set us apart from other animals are our extraordinary capacity to learn and to communicate. This strand focuses on these faculties through the psychological study of infant and child development, and the acquisition of language skills from infancy to adulthood. 

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• TB1: Introduction to  Language - Dr Silvia Gennari 
• TB2: Introduction to Development - Prof Liz Meins
• TB3: Infancy - Prof Liz MeinsDr Francina Clayton
• TB4: Language Development - Prof Sven Mattys
• TB5: Sounds and Words - Prof Gareth GaskellDr Angela De Bruin

Year 2

Year 2 begins by considering how, as children, we learn to recognize printed words through the mapping between sounds and letters, and how, as children and adults, we understand meaning through the mapping between words, grammar, and world knowledge. We end with a more detailed look at alternative accounts of cognitive development, and developmental changes in social, and emotional development. With normal development as the back-drop, we also consider developmental disorders of cognitive functions.

• TB6: Sentences and Meaning - Prof Gareth Gaskell

• TB7: Brain and Language - Dr. Silvia Gennari
• TB8: Cognitive Development - Dr Bailey House
• TB9: Social and Emotional Development - Dr Harriet Over

Text Books

 Sedivy, J. (2014). Language in Mind: An introduction to psycholinguistics. Sinauer Associates. 

 Slater S. & Bremner, J. G. (2011). An Introduction to Developmental Psychology, 2nd edition. 

Teaching Team